If you're willing to take a dozen at a time, and can live with the inventory (style and size) they have on hand, Sierra Trading Post is a place that you can pick up flies for as cheap as 36.5 cents a piece ($4.38/dozen). If the flies are on sale and you have one of their 45% off codes, that's where the price lands. So far, my only disappointment was some size "6" cicada flies, which were more like 1/0. They will still work for a big winged night bug, just not a normal sized daytime cicada. My wife can attest that my fly boxes are now full, thanks to STP, and at that price, I've been able to pick up a few saltwater or other non-typical flies to throw into my freshwater arsenal. I agree with afishinado that the components alone will cost that much, and I can't justify tying some of the more complex patterns, when I can buy them for less than the components alone (and that assumes that my time is donated as a labor of love). The only downside that I see is that I now have a dozen of some of the non-typical flies to store, where probably two would suffice. But hopefully I can catch fish on some of them and they will become go-to flies.

salmonoid wrote:If you're willing to take a dozen at a time, and can live with the inventory (style and size) they have on hand, Sierra Trading Post is a place that you can pick up flies for as cheap as 36.5 cents a piece ($4.38/dozen). If the flies are on sale and you have one of their 45% off codes, that's where the price lands.

Good thinkin. I haven't had time at all to tie lately. Just went on STP and got 13 dozen flies for $84. That's $0.55 per fly.

30% off with code SITEWED1113. That code ends today but Im sure another one will be right around the corner.

StarvinMarvin wrote:No way use the flystop. I had a friend put a 150$ order in and he never received the flies and the company will not refund him or even send him an order. Smh

WOW my experience with Fly Stop has been great. My favorite feature is they keep an online account of every fly you have purchased including a picture of same. See attached. I will forward a link of this conversation to the owner.

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I love FlyStop and I appreciate the extra expense they go through to print out a color list of each fly I ordered. As a newbie that really helped me figure out what on Earth I paid for, and then to attach a name to flies that worked.

The flies themselves range from about a 3-7 on a 1-10 scale. Nothing is amazing and most of the flies only survive 4 or 5 trips (unless a tree spares them first), but there are a few diamonds in the rough and the price/speed is the real kicker. I've probably spent $300 or so there since my addiction began 2 years ago